非英语专业大学生认知方式和英语学习风格研究外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

AbstractSince Abstract Since the focus of EFL and ESL learning has been shifted from teaching to learning，more and more researches have been conducted on the learners’individual characteristics．Cognitive s够le and learning style are two of those characteristics that exert all important influence on individual’S EFL and ESL learning．They have been drawing researchers’attention and there have been fruitful research findings of cognitive style and learning style in recent years． In the field of cognitive style researches，Witkin is one of the most important and productive representatives．He has classified cognitive style into two categories： field-independence and field-dependence，and come up弛a very—popular instrument to test people’S field-independent(FI)and field—dependent fFD)cognitive styles，that is，the Embedded Figures Test(EFT)．As for the learning style researches， the representative researcher Joy Reid’S design of the Perceptual Learning Style Preference Questionnaire(PLSPQ)for learning style testing has become one of the most frequently adopted instruments in many studies．This study uses the two instruments mentioned above and conducts a research on 72 non-English majors in Anhui University to study both their cognitive styles and English learning styles． Specifically speaking，the thesis aims to discuss the following questions：(1)What are the features of non—English majors’cognitive styles?(2)What are the features of non-English majors’learning style preferences?(3)What is the relationship between cognitive style and English learning style preference? The findings of the above questions are as follows：(1)On the whole，the non-English majors tend to be more FD than FI．Males are more FI than females while females are more FD than males．Besides，the relationship between students’ cognitive styles and their English scores is not very significant．(2)The non-English majors have different preferences for the six learning styles．They prefer tactile learning style most，audi